Administrator Licensure Information
Is your Illinois Professional Educator License due for renewal in 2020?

The answer to this question is at your fingertips.  Please go to your Educator Licensure Information System (ELIS) account to review your records (https://sec3.isbe.net/IWASNET/login.aspx). If your records show a license expiration date of "06/30/2020," then this current school year is your renewal year. 

Please check your professional development records. Make sure you have entered your required amount of "Continuing Professional Development Hours," and be sure you have completed your required number of Illinois Administrator Academy courses.  

If you need additional IAA courses, don’t delay. Register for the courses you need. We've listed our current schedule on this page and you can always visit www.iaachicago.com for more information!

1. Use assessments and measurement models identified by the Joint Committee in determining student growth attributable to individual principals/teachers and understand how different types of assessments are used for measuring growth.
2. Use data from the evaluation rubric, other evidence collected, and best practices relative to evaluating student growth to link principal/teacher and school-level professional development plans to evaluation results.
3. In collaboration with principal/teachers, create supportive, targeted professional development plans that consider past results, contribute to professional growth, and assist teachers and principals in aligning professional development and goal-setting to school improvement goals.
4. Communicate evaluation outcomes and findings in constructive and supportive ways that enable teachers/principals to set goals and improve practice.    

This course, taught by Richard "Dick" Smith, will offer practical strategies to help effective leaders intentionally build and shape a positive, healthy culture that embraces change and promotes student success. Included will be indicators that identify positive and toxic cultures and tools that assess culture. This course will show the relationship between effective leadership, school culture, and student achievement. Recommended for principals who want to improve school culture. Participants will leave energized with practical ideas, research-based practices, and handy tools to create and maintain a positive school culture that promotes learning and engagement for students and staff.

The focus of this course is on improving the participants’ conferencing conversation skills and strategy development with teachers. The goal is to structure conversations intended to improve classroom teachers’ abilities to reflect, learn, and apply insights to their own lesson planning and instructional delivery.

Participants will be able to:

• identify the value of meaningful professional conversations about teaching and learning by helping teachers reflect on their teaching 
• expand their repertoire of questioning skills within the four phases of planning, teaching, reflecting, and analyzing of lessons resulting in reflective, self-directed learning
• learn how to create conference “lesson plans” including content, context and effective language to ensure that the conference results in the quality of self-reflection, lesson planning and instructional delivery that lead to improved student achievement outcomes.    

Teacher Evaluator Competency Skill Building for Pre-Qualified Teacher Evaluators - Part 1 of 3. Administrators who evaluate teachers must demonstrate a high rate of inter-rater reliability and communicate evaluation outcomes in constructive and supportive ways. This Academy focuses on Domains 2 and 3 of Charlotte Danielson’s 2013 Framework for Teaching. This course requires participants to view teaching, record data according to the Professional Practice rubric, and participate in mock evaluation conferences as an evaluator, teacher, or observer.

This course will look at the difference between Walk-Throughs and Mini-Evaluations, and how they can be used to get a picture of what is going on in the classroom. A particular focus will be how to use the tools to look at the classroom management skills of teachers.